GeForce FX 5600 Ultra vs Radeon R7 350

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	600	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	7.07	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	NV31
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	6 July 2016 (8 years ago)	17 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$199

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	no data
Core clock speed	800 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	80 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	25.60	1.600
Floating-point processing power	0.8192 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	32	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm	191 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	400 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	12.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	6 July 2016	17 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	130 nm

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